10 things you need to know today: February 3, 2017

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1. Machete-wielding man shot by soldier near Paris' Louvre museum

A French soldier shot and wounded a man carrying a machete and shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic) at the entrance to a shopping area at the Louvre museum in Paris, police said Friday. The soldier fired five shots, seriously wounding the suspect in the abdomen. Michel Cadot, head of the French capital's police, said the armed man was "clearly aggressive and represented a direct threat," and Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said shooting the man averted an attack that was "terrorist in nature." France has been under a state of emergency since the 2015 Paris attacks, which killed 130 people.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.